Alan W. Watts Quotes

A Chinese Philosophical Work Called The Secret Of The Golden Flower Says That "when Purpose Has Been Used To Achieve Purposelessness, The Thing Has Been Grasped." For A Society Surviving To No Purpose Is One That Makes No Provision For Purposeless Behavior - That Is, For Actions Not Directly Aimed At Survival, Which Fulfill Themselves In Being Done In The Present And Do Not Necessarily Imply Some Future Reward.

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